What is abortion? it is a deliberate termination of a pregnancy. Removing the fetus from the mother before it is fully form. Is this something that we should consider as permissible. According to Judith J. Thomson in “A Defense of abortion”, she believes it is permissible. Throughout her whole argument she states points that people against abortion would say then she would argue against that but first, what is her argument? Thomson agrees with abortion, she feels that a mother as the right to get rid of the fetus if she wishes to or some would say, detach herself from a burden. She believes that a Fetus is not a person which she compares to an acorn. She states that “A newly fertilized ovum, a newly implanted clump of cells, is no more a person
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She introduced a scenario where a person was kidnapped because a famous unconscious violinist was found to have a fatal kidney ailment and the person blood was found to be the only one that could help the violinist. The violinist’s circularity system is then connected to the person to extract the poison from the violinist, but the person was told that if they unplugged, the violinist would die but if that person doesn’t, then it will only last 9 months until the violinist is fully recovered. Comparing this to a pregnancy is something totally different, a pregnancy is not something forced upon any one. Its avoidable and there are many ways to stop pregnancies and if a woman doesn’t take the right precautions to do so then you cat just take a life because of their mistake. A baby/ fetus didn’t just attach itself to the mother’s body, it was the choices of the mother that put it there and it’s her consequence to bear. The person who was kidnapped had nothing to do with the violinist, none of that person’s action was the cause of the kidney ailments so that person doesn’t have to help the violinist. In favor of abortion, this analogy may imply that abortion Is permissible in one sense. Let’s say that that woman who is pregnant was raped. This woman in my perspective would have all right to get rid of that baby. She did not choose to have that burden, it was as if forced onto
She introduced a scenario where a person was kidnapped because a famous unconscious violinist was found to have a fatal kidney ailment and the person blood was found to be the only one that could help the violinist. The violinist’s circularity system is then connected to the person to extract the poison from the violinist, but the person was told that if they unplugged, the violinist would die but if that person doesn’t, then it will only last 9 months until the violinist is fully recovered. Comparing this to a pregnancy is something totally different, a pregnancy is not something forced upon any one. Its avoidable and there are many ways to stop pregnancies and if a woman doesn’t take the right precautions to do so then you cat just take a life because of their mistake. A baby/ fetus didn’t just attach itself to the mother’s body, it was the choices of the mother that put it there and it’s her consequence to bear. The person who was kidnapped had nothing to do with the violinist, none of that person’s action was the cause of the kidney ailments so that person doesn’t have to help the violinist. In favor of abortion, this analogy may imply that abortion Is permissible in one sense. Let’s say that that woman who is pregnant was raped. This woman in my perspective would have all right to get rid of that baby. She did not choose to have that burden, it was as if forced onto